February 22
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
February 22, 1998
Courtney took me home at 10:30. Watched T.V. Napped. Had lunch. “Little Women.” Played softball w/ Dad & Becca. Came home. Ate. Painted shelves.
Laura M., age 14, North Carolina
February 22, 1997
Up at 5:00! :( Drove to airport. Got to Cary at 5:00. Came home and visited with Mom. Talked to Sean and he was gushing with “I love you’s.” Thank God.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
February 22, 1960
Decided I’d better clean the living room. Was at it all day. Didn’t quite finish. Ate at home. Lo said walking was very bad at cabin. She and Jim went out in P.M. She shopped at noon at A&P. After eating dinner shopped at Piggly Wiggly. I cooked kidneys for the cats and ground etc. Now to bed.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
February 22, 1944
Glorious morning. So breezy and mild but got windier and cooler at noon. Shortened classes. Met advisers at 11:40 (seniors). Filled out some papers and made appointment for Friday. Convocation at 2 in ballroom. Mrs. Bok spoke on manners – courtesy. Very good. Practiced. Then to town. Got crackers. Not so cold. Beautiful. Studied. At 7:30 I went to Miss Good Smith and Miss Singleton’s 2-piano recital and some vocal selections by Mr. Umlouf. Very good! Inspired me to go to library afterwards and read ahead for history. Really got intellectual urge!! To bed late.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
February 22, 1888
It has been a very bright and pleasant day, so warm I did not wear an overcoat up town. It looked very much like a storm of some kind tonight. The roads are in a rather bad state, as they break through in places that ice hurts the horse’s feet. There was an entertainment up town tonight, but I felt too tired to go, and thought I better stay home anyway. I spent the most of the evening practicing writing.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
February 22, 1887
The sun rose clear this morning and the day has been very bright and pleasant, and moderate also. I wrote copies for a long time after breakfast, and then I went over to our house and took the big curtain down and put in the trunk; so it would not be fading out uselessly. I also examined the buckwheat and find the mice have ruined about half of it on account of Fred Waters having carelessly left it uncovered. Taught this afternoon, things did not go off very well. I am afraid I am going to have an unpleasant time the rest of the term. I have been reading from Hiawathia [sic] tonight. Must write to Kate now.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Columbus T., age 31, North Carolina
February 22, 1874
Went to Tucker Hall to see how the new congregation of Episcopalians are getting on. Cabinet organ music good. Pastor a Mr. Rich of Md. Text “Get thee behind me Satan, for &c.” Day bright and very warm for this time [of] year. Sat out on pizza much of the time. Wrote three notes on postal card 1 for home 1 to R. and 1 to Willie. Took evening walk to P. Office.
Went to Christs Church at night service read by Bishop Lyman. Sermon by Mr. Rich. The Church is hung with the drapery of mo[u]rning for Dr. Mason descd. Funeral service put off to Tuesday morning at 11.
On return stopped in at Baptist Church and Mr Ivey was concluding long talk in behalf pf Wake Forest College. Then next Dr. P. lead a little boy and young lady down into the baptistery and immersed them.
*(Worthy of Record: The Civil War and Reconstruction Diaries of Columbus Lafayette Turner, Ed. Kenrick N. Simpson, courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina.)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
February 22, 1863
I have the heart burn badly this morning. It is some better now as I have been vomiting. I have had it for a week, more or less. Rained very hard last night & cool this morning & cloudy. The children are all in the kitchen. I hear their little laughing tongues a going. Fannie is not so well this morning. It is near her time of confinement. I do hope Mr. Henry will get back before she gets down as it is her first one.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
February 22, 1862
Washington’s birthday. What a trouble the once happy United States is in. We are determined to be a free people & we have got our freedom to fight for a second time.
Rain again today. I finished Willie’s apron & made myself one like it. Atheline finished the candles today, enough for one year I think. Fannie made some dried apple pies & molasses custards for the children. I mended some late in the evening. I washed Pinck & Zona tonight as usual & put them on clean clothes. Raining very hard, a real summer shower. Fannie in here patching.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Samuel P., age 35, London
February 22, 1668
Up, and by coach through Ducke Lane, and there did buy Kircher’s Musurgia, cost me 35s., a book I am mighty glad of, expecting to find great satisfaction in it. Thence to Westminster Hall and the lobby, and up and down there all the morning, and to the Lords’ House, and heard the Solicitor-General plead very finely, as he always do; and this was in defence of the East India Company against a man that complains of wrong from them, and thus up and down till noon in expectation of our business coming on in the House of Commons about tickets, but they being busy about my Lord Gerard’s business I did give over the thoughts of ours coming on, and so with my wife, and Mercer, and Deb., who come to the Hall to me, I away to the Beare, in Drury Lane, and there bespoke a dish of meat; and, in the mean time, sat and sung with Mercer; and, by and by, dined with mighty pleasure, and excellent meat, one little dish enough for us all, and good wine, and all for 8s., and thence to the Duke’s playhouse, and there saw “Albumazar,” an old play, this the second time of acting. It is said to have been the ground of B. Jonson’s “Alchymist;” but, saving the ridicuiousnesse of Angell’s part, which is called Trinkilo, I do not see any thing extraordinary in it, but was indeed weary of it before it was done. The King here, and, indeed, all of us, pretty merry at the mimique tricks of Trinkilo. So home, calling in Ducke Lane for the book I bought this morning, and so home, and wrote my letters at the office, and then home to supper and to bed.
*(The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S., edited by Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A., London, George Bell & Sons York St. Covent Garden, Cambridge Deighton Bell & Co., 1893.)